🗺️Landmarks
Museums, historic sites, churches, HBCUs, parks, and cultural institutions tied to Black history.
Sweet Auburn
Atlanta neighborhood that produced MLK Jr. and an entire generation of Black political and economic leadership.
Church / House of worship · Atlanta, GA, USA
@blackwikiSweet Auburn Curb Market
Atlanta indoor market on Edgewood Avenue, anchor of the historic Sweet Auburn district.
Library / Archive · Atlanta, GA, USA
@blackwikiTampa Bay History Center — African American Gallery
Permanent African American history exhibits in the downtown Tampa history museum.
Museum · Tampa, FL, USA
@blackwikiThe King Center
Atlanta memorial and archive on Auburn Avenue housing the tombs of MLK Jr. and Coretta Scott King.
Library / Archive · Atlanta, GA, USA
@blackwikiThe Woodson African American Museum of Florida
St. Petersburg museum named for historian Carter G. Woodson dedicated to Florida Black history.
Museum · St. Petersburg, FL, USA
@blackwikiTougaloo College
Tougaloo, MS HBCU founded 1869; a Freedom Movement staging ground in the 1960s.
Library / Archive · Tougaloo, MS, USA
@blackwikiTrue Reformer Building
U Street building designed by Black architect John Lankford in 1903 — the first major building in DC fully financed, designed, and built by African Americans.
Historic site / Memorial · Washington, DC, USA
@blackwikiTuskegee Airmen National Historic Site (Moton Field)
Tuskegee, AL airfield where the Tuskegee Airmen trained during World War II.
Historic site / Memorial · Tuskegee, AL, USA
@blackwikiTuskegee University Historic Campus
1881 college founded by Booker T. Washington; later home to the Tuskegee Airmen training program and the Carver agricultural research labs.
Museum · Tuskegee, AL, USA
@blackwikiWatts Towers
Folk-art landmark in the historic Black Watts neighborhood of South LA.
Historic site / Memorial · Los Angeles, CA, USA
@blackwikiWeeksville Heritage Center
Brooklyn historic site preserving a free Black community founded in 1838.
Historic site / Memorial · Brooklyn, NY, USA
@blackwikiWharton-Smith Sites of African American Memory
Wharton, TX collection of plantation, freedmen's school, and Reconstruction-era sites along the Brazos River.
Historic site / Memorial · Wharton, TX, USA
@blackwikiWhitney Plantation
Louisiana plantation museum centered on the enslaved — the only one in the US that tells history from the captives' perspective.
Museum · Edgard, LA, USA
@blackwikiWithers Collection Museum
Memphis museum dedicated to photographer Ernest C. Withers — the Eye of the Civil Rights Movement.
Museum · Memphis, TN, USA
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